On The Move - for the final time!!

Our proposed new home ..... well it was new approximately one hundred and forty years ago!! As the enormity of what we are about to take on hits home I am beginning to feel just a tad nervous. We are no strangers to moving and setting up home - being ex military it was a way of life in the early days of our marriage! But this move is huge, it's massive...... and it's very very scary! We are leaving behind our cosy and comfortable little Victorian semi ........

.... with three bedrooms

comfy sitting room ...

beautiful bathroom.....

large family kitchen ......  

   & delightful little garden .......

to move just around the corner (literally), to a much bigger property, in need of a great deal of tender loving care! I have not the foggiest idea of how to write a blog, but intend to use this as a diary to enable me to record this, our final house move.


We are not only leaving behind lots of memories, our two children spent some of their teenage years here, and now as married couples themselves have each brought their own little reproductions here to visit! We have the most incredibly kind neighbours, one of whom has regularly - (since the appearance of the estate agent's bright red board in the garden), been bringing me little incentives, mostly in the form of chocolate, to try and persuade me to take down the aforementioned 'nasty' board and stay! This same gentleman also bakes cakes for our foster kids and extended family as well as numerous 'others' (nursing homes and the local hospice to name just a couple)! We will miss freshly baked apple pies from the eighty nine year old lady across the road, no matter when you call she is always in the kitchen rustling something delicious up on her huge industrial sized stove! But, if I am to realise my long awaited dream of my own little business, then move we must ..........